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I am exploring a new concept that may simplify how equipment setups are handled in BTP. The idea is to eliminate equipment selection at the mash schedule step level and move these selections to a general mash schedule configuration. Not only will this simplify equipment selection but will simplify setup of the steps themselves.

What I need from you is some information on what type of setup you use so I can get an idea of what major setup types exist. For example, do you use a mash/lauter tun & HLT setup or picnic cooler and kitchen stove configuration; or a combination of the two? The more data I can collect from you, the better. Thanks for your help!

Last edited by jeff on Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Hi Jeff. I mash in a picnic cooler (48 quart ice chest) with a stainless steel mesh hose for lautering (I use the batch sparge method). I then boil in a propane turkey fryer; the pot is 32 quarts as I recall, and I've had it so long that I can't remember the BTUs of the burner, but I'd guess it is just somewhere close to 60k, which seems to be fairly typical. Usually ferment in glass carboys, but occasionally will use a plastic bucket if the carboys are in use, and then I'll usually transfer from bucket to carboy after the carboy becomes available, for a secondary.

I primarily use a cooler mash tun with a kettle, usually heated on the stove, as an HLT. I typically run multiple infusion mashes, but perform decoctions with a reasonable frequency, and mostly batch sparge into a second kettle. Depending on the batch size, it then goes back on the stove or out to a propane burner.

I use a 15 gal. pot for HLT, with a copper heat exchanger coil in it. I heat strike water in the HLT first, transfer it to the Mash Tun (10 gal Igloo cooler).
Then I fill the HLT with spargewater and heat to 170F. While that is heating, I recirculate the Mash through the heat exchanger by in the HLT via pump to maintain or raise Mash Temps.
The recirc of the Mash is computer controlled and only occurs when it senses that the Mash temp is off by 1 or 2 degrees. So it will run the recirc cycle as needed to pick up heat from the exchanger coil.
Then I transfer from Mash Tun to another 15 gal. pot for boiling.
All my heat sources are electric elements inside the vessels.
5000 watts for HLT and 4500 Watts for Boil Kettle, controlled via SSR and temp sensors.